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Naps are fantastic. Whether it’s a second sleep at 8am after a disrupted night, a power nap after lunch, or a disco nap before a late shift: naps rock.
For a few brief hours this week it seemed the Prime Minister was, like me, a nap fan, catching 40 winks every now and again in his hectic schedule. It was a glorious moment of nap-rebranding. Apparently, this is another way in which our bombastic leader was just like his idol Winston Churchill. Naps aren’t just for babies and toddlers, the message rang out. No, they can be a power tool for leaders, to help them surge through the day from dawn til midnight.
And then someone in Downing Street panicked and a withering denial was issued by the PM’s spokesman. Naps are for wimps, they might as well have said, not for our guy BoJo. What a wasted opportunity to bond with a sleep-deprived nation, where lack of good quality pillow time is costing us £40bn a year.
Sleep is one of the three most important things humans do, along with eating and drinking. Without these three basics, we quite literally can’t do anything. Our bodies stop functioning properly. So why is sleep the only one people eternally boast about doing without?
Yes: there are clean eating and fasting trends, but anyone who goes for less than one proper meal a day is basically considered a kook by mainstream society, in the same bucket as people who steam their vaginas. No one has ever crafted a political narrative about how little they eat: even freakishly thin celebrities usually claim they consume loads and “have a fast metabolism”.
And does anyone ever show off their bravado by claiming they like to get through the day in a state of chronic dehydration? My wisecracking stepfather habitually claims he never drinks water, because fish poo in it. But even he drinks other fluids without a modicum of shame.
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SubscribeSleep is only comsidered weakness by feeble commentators, or those with a need to prove themselves.
I’ve been power napping ““ 10 minutes usually – since my early 30s, and it’s a great way to recharge for the rest of the day, and evening.
If people are complaining because he had a nap,
Get a life because you are complaining about nothing.
Is this the level of journalists and commentators nowadays?
You all thought you were going to break a Watergate story instead you moan about a nap!
What a wonderful profession you are
I have said in another post along with many Unheard commentators about the plummeting standards on the board. This a classic nonsense piece written I assume by a pre-teen. Question is can anything be done?
Well I have stopped watching TV years ago as with radio (news and the Today program) and find news via the internet. Which I have to admit in most cases is only marginally better.
Perhaps ‘news’ as I suspect many want it to be – Factual is finished. I link to this site not for the OTT American content but for the debates in the comments.
These are infinitely more interesting, perhaps some of the commentators may be allowed to contribute with an article. Of course I assume (dangerous word) that they will have to have a Union card. Hey Ho as I thought there was a flaw in that idea. Still the BBC is good for one thing. About every 6 months I check my watch with the 1pm pips:-)
YES
EXCELLENT PIECE… This shows wonderful creativity in underlining a sinister public health danger in our technological society. Electric lighting and television have lured our eyeballs to stay open when we’re exhausted… Sleep is the only time that your lymphatic system operates in your brain. Lack of sleep will allow all manner off waste products to accumulate, contributing to all sorts of neurological pathologies.
Here is why such criticism might be deserved: because Bojo would have ruthlessly mocked the leader of the opposition if caught napping.
I agree with the PM and take no truck from anyone who dissapoves of him or I closing our eyes at any time we need to. It is no concern of anyone else unless they feel important enough to pass comment. Having said that, I apologise for feeling important.
Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnn. I’d be happy to sleep until all this is over, the pubs and restaurants are open, I can mooch around a bookshop and people stop leaping into moving traffic to avoid being a millimetre too close to someone.
Bojo is an Absolutly incompetent Little fat boy
Needs a NAP because down deep he just can’t with the responsibility all his decisions are late taken and on top the wrong ones!! which is why ppl is dying in this country like flies
It’s a mistake after the other one he is a living walking disaster honestly
Thinking about it Maybe his lack of grey matter makes him so tired because he needs to remember all his lies….lol that’s why he needs naps?? Lol
anyway… its a shame to have a PM like him who’s representing Britons in the world!! indeed…